alt Hacker NewsYes. Though some ISR platforms are more adaptable than others. (i.e. you’re not the only one here with lived DIB experience..)
But an easy illustrative reference is the Predator drone loosing Hellfire missiles during the War on Terror.
Yes. Though some ISR platforms are more adaptable than others. (i.e. you’re not the only one here with lived DIB experience..)
But an easy illustrative reference is the Predator drone loosing Hellfire missiles during the War on Terror.
Very possible. Once you've gone to the massive engineering effort/budget to produce something like an RQ180, I'm sure someone will come up with an idea boiled down to essentially "hey what if we took the radar-resistant bay door design and internal munitions bay mounting from the F22 and shrunk it a bit, we could fit at least four 500 lb JDAMs in this bad boy"...
Things get re-used in weird ways with other stuff grafted onto them, I'm pretty sure the people who originally designed the F-A/18 never imagined it would be turned into the EA18 growler.